All Women for Brighton
Brighton Short Breaks salutes Brighton and Hove showing its self view as the most Right On in the this week with the occurance that it is the first a parliamentary election has assembled an all-female listing of nominees.
20 years after Mrs Thatcher broke political barriers by the first ever Prime Minister the charge that the lobbies of Westminster are still a male reigned club ring just as clamorously as ever! So, Brighton and Hove’s full female short list of Parliamentary candidates generates some boost to a possible future exchange of basis in the sex equilibrium in the political power domain .
Being cited in The Argus , Fawcett Society chief executive Ceri Goddard said: “If all the candidates are women that is cause for celebration but also concern that it has taken until 2009, whereas all-male elections are still the norm.
“The voters if Brighton can be pleased that whom ever they elect they will be a step closer to closing the gender gap in parliament where currently less than 20% of our MP’s are women – less than Iraq, Afghanistan and Rwanda.”
‘Less than Iraq, Afghanistan and Rwanda……… ‘ – personally that peculiar statement left me somewhat discombobulated about the state of our governmental arena and curious as to the reasons for male mastery above and beyond the onetime precedency that gentlemen should have it entirely their own way – and its a whole Pandoras box of debate that is better left for another .
But my resolve here today is as – as always – to fly the flag for Brighton and Hove and establish how forward-looking thinking and politically awake our is, and having a ratio of men to women in parliament more typical of the population, is in my belief, a pace in the true direction! brighton holiday apartment
